What are the best shoe, trainer, sneaker replacement laces?
Do No-Tie shoe laces work? What do Triathletes use for speed laces?
I walk through how I've replaced every lace on my shoes, trainers, sneakers and boots with Lock Laces. I love these. The things I can do with the time I free up from not tying shoe laces... writing books, recording podcasts, helping charity... and definitely not playing wormmate. This is my second Vlogmas video... I'm not sure I can keep this up.
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Hello I'm Neil welcome back to the Happy Hut!
The Tower of Power... the shed of Dreams... look there's Casper there keeping guard
you're doing good work, thank you!
I'm going to share with you how I'm never going to tie shoelaces again
This is the dad delivers Vlog where we try new things to make your family happy and I'm a bit obsessed with not tying shoelaces with these...
they're called lock laces and they are the little bungee ropes with a gripper on the top to stop them falling off and stop your shoes falling off
They're brilliant - they’ve changed my life. I’ve put them on absolutely everything
I've put them on all my shoes and trainers and Boots
Not my funeral shoes - the one bit of Footwear that's avoided these is my funeral shoes
I’m in no rush to tie those on, but with lock laces I put them on absolutely everything else “Epsolutely?” That’s quite posh, isn’t it? absolutely!
Here's some footage shot in sunnier times... oh man I wish it were that warm now uh and this footage demonstrates how I've put them on all my shoes because I... I shot this for my random nine gift ideas video which is doing stormingly well... I think I've got 100 views on it
You can get the lock laces in different colours... uh I've gone all the way from black all the way through to Blue - I put blue onto my boots.
I wasn't quite sure about this but I sort of like it.
Now there are different types of lock laces - there are pretenders to the crown - copycat challengers to the lock lace realm - and on these dare I say cheaper ones, you squeeze the gripper from the side...
And the gripper is also metal, and it's... it's really difficult - it’s a complete pain because look these lock laces they've just got one button
They're one and done, and we notice you've got to squeeze them from side to side - you’ve got to use two hands, so even in the space of being lazy with your shoelaces there's an even lazy option and that's the lock lace like, which I heartily recommend
So let's get these on
I'm putting them on my son's boots.
He's been begging me to do this for about a month now and he couldn't wait to get started on his new boots which is completely understandable.
Let’s take out the laces. By the way while I'm doing that, these lock laces are in the link in the description if you wanted to buy these ones
They're not cheap, unfortunately but they're worth every penny, so you've got two grippers
Two things that go on the end and two laces, so we're gonna lace up the boots first
I'm just gonna go to there... I can't be bothered to do the... the two eyelets at the top and I'm gonna get it fairly tight but not really tight, just to get an idea... and then we've got this bit on the end
Let's do the other one. By the way I've just noticed I've only bought these a week ago and the eyelets are already rusting
It looks cool but I was hoping it would last longer than a week!
Right so now we've got these dangly bits - you could just leave them like that but it would really annoy you
You know you'd be tripping on them. This is a delicate part of the operation because obviously once I've cut it I can't go back. Let’s put the gripper on.
You don’t want this to be too long so I'm going to pull it tight to there and I reckon I'm gonna go to about there, so I'm gonna cut those and do it on the other side
Now just measure how much I want it to be out by. and then I'll cut those there
Put the lock lace gripper on
I'm not sponsored by them
I should be shouldn't I?
Now we've got a stopper on the end to stop the gripper from flying off
We just feed the laces into the stopper and then we can snap it shut like this
There we go, that looks really tidy
Do the same on the other shoe and squeeze it shut.
There we go - lock laces on the two boots for the boy yeah!
I'm calling this a Dad Delivers success!
Hey this is the first time we've done this in the Hut isn't it? I kind of like this!
The link to the lock laces is obviously Down Below in the description: thanks so much if you do use that link and right here is what YouTube knows that you're gonna love next!
This is my unboxing of the IKEA KNIXHULT wicker rattan table lamp. Assembly instructions and trying it out on the window shelf for some home decor ideas. I also talk about how the L-Shape bench is going, show our IKEA haul and sound out how a Costco membership video would go down?
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hello I'm Neil welcome back to the channel - it's the Dad delivers Vlog where I try new things to make your family happy
let me put some lights on
we've not done an unboxing video in a while have we?
there's probably a good reason for that
I think all my friends hate them
they are really polarizing as well aren't they because if I'm opening something you're not interested in... it's time... it's time to switch off so let's see how long I can keep your attention for because we went to Ikea
right so this is the other problem, it's been ages since I've made a video from my poor little Ikea dad Channel
look there it is languishing away I think it's got 400 something subscribers but look how long it's been since I've uploaded a video
I think I'm gonna close it down
what do you think let me know
uh don't tell the Ikea dad subscribers but I think I should do all of that on this channel and the Ikea videos that I do... do on this channel seem to do really well and today we went to the... the big blue and yellow store
let's just sit here
I've not used this as an area, so this is the L-shaped bench that I bent... “that I bent?!”
That I built! let's give it a try
it's not quite finished yet we've got to make some um seat cushions
I've been cutting up uh foam and put the... the sides on... on the last video so that went well
I think there might be one more video left where I varnish it and fill some of the screw holes on the side there
this looks bleak doesn't it but we got something to go... this is what we're unboxing: it's to go on the... on the Shelf there if I've got that in shot and it's this!
it's the Knixhult wicker lamp.
I hate wicker.
We managed to purge our house of wicker... We... I managed to purge the house of wicker but this has been chosen by the person who actually has a good design or... anything in the house that you see that looks good isn't... isn't my doing and the advice is that this will finish off the... the nice wooden shelf our new wooden shelf by our new window really well
um so let's open it up and also I can show you some of the other things that I've got in... with in Ikea today
it was our daughter- it was our daughter's fault
she had football today
it's Saturday and uh it usually involves driving to really Bleak places and watching her and her teammates get injured but uh I know there's no “but” to this...
they lost four nil
they played really well and I think this team were a whole division above them
there was some weird fixture problem
if you're not familiar with the Grassroots of women's football in this country it's basically 11 year old girls and 50 year old men just screaming “down the line!”
“down the line!” like that means something so the lionesses have actually overcome more hurdles I think to... to achieve their status in... in football
but anyway back to the IKEA haul
uh should I show you some other things
I got a bag which I use for the... the laundry which is good and these other things they're from Costco and I've been putting off making a video about costco
do you want to see a video about how to join Costco in the UK?
is that... is that a thing?
because look I managed to get... I'll show you... we got a lot more than this
I've got some Oat-y milk and we've got you know a catering pack of chewing gum... massive bag of Casper food and some Dentastix
but this is the... not from us... this is the Ikea haul with some random drink
my daughter... I just wanted to cheer her up a bit - I got this nice Heather - some lucky Heather
I think the team might need that and a nice pot
I got these really expensive hooks
I don't know whether to put them on the... this is really vloggy today this... this video isn't it?
I don't know where to put them on the door here, outside the... the bathroom so we can use that for coats for our hallway
before my hallway project comes together
that - I'm trying to make that the next video uh that would be over there so I think some coat hooks here would help but it might also just make the whole area look disgusting in a way that it's nice and clean and empty at the moment
feel free to put your interior Decor device down in the comments but I was thinking if I've got some couple of flip down hooks that could be a place for hanging up dog leads and... and big coats and anything else
got some sponges that I like I love these ones
and some bulbs for today's main attraction the Knixhult wicker lamp
there's not going to be much else to this video other than opening it up so ah let's see what comes in the Box
Wow okay so it's... it is wicker - to take it out of the cardboard so you get a dome thing - a hat or maybe that's... that's the base isn't it and that goes onto here so that opens up like that
Get rid of the box
I have been taking ages editing these videos which is why they've been coming out not so very often
I might as well just ramble and let you enjoy where... where things go instead of me trying to cut them down and make them all super whiz-bang
I've got another Channel which is all about just traveling around London and everywhere on trains
I literally put up a video of just me pointing at some trains and it gets hundreds of views
I lovingly craft these Vlog videos and um that sounds like I'm whining I'm not but I just wonder if I should make these videos a bit more loose and a bit more chatty
but anyway so we've got a base here
I need to find a plug
let's try down here
and the trouble with the L-shaped bench is a bit difficult at the moment to get to the plugs that are behind it
okay so we’re plugged in
I swear I've got boxes of these somewhere but we bought some more... it's uh what do you call fear of... of bulbs
it's a bulb anxiety
whoa a little uh sneak preview there
I think this base has to go on first like this
I love this shirt but it's got this thing where when I move my elbow it just tears some more off the uh... off the arm here
let's put the lid on
and then you just open this up - like that so you open up the legs to lock it in
ah it's all landfill isn't it
and then... ah nice... nice uh fabric cord here
the cable is about a metre and a half long so it's really not long enough to reach to the window I think I've got some more plug sockets down here give me a second I'll pretty it up for a end shot
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[RIIIIP]
that's my shirt
I mean it's you know it looks like lollipop sticks or coffee stirrer sticks
Oh some dead flies there but that looks nice
gives a bit more light around here
I'll run some beauty shots
I want to thank you for hitting the Thumbs Up Button if you reach this point of the video
if you're getting value from this Vlog content but do tell me if you want to see the Costco membership how to
it's the best I can muster for a beauty end shot
maybe some close-ups of the... the Shelf that's nice
This video is an unboxing and assembly of the IKEA TROTTEN adjustable standing desk, PLUS 2 years on review! I bought this sit/stand desk from IKEA exactly 2 years ago and I share all the pros and cons from using it daily. I can easily adjust the height of the desk between 70 and 120 cm by just cranking the handle to get the best position for both sitting and standing... I went for a beige desktop which apparently is kind to your eyes since it makes the contrasts between the screen and tabletop softer... and it's comfortable for left- and right-handers, as the crank handle can be mounted on the left or right side. And it has adjustable feet make the desk stand steady also on uneven floors. I tried fitting casters, which sort of works but it does raise the desk height to a little too high even for me.
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Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut. I'm Neil, and this video is all about this!
It's my battlestation. It's an Ikea Trotten standing desk. There's a mechanical winding handle so you can adjust the height to sit like a normal desk or raise it to standing level. When I bought it, Ikea called it Skasta, but now they've renamed it Trotten to fit in with their other desk range. All through this video, I've replaced the word Skasta with Trotten and I've dubbed it really badly. I've had this for two years now, and I'm sharing all the things that I love about it. But let me show you how you assemble this standing desk.
Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hut.
It is a very exciting day today, and these beauties from Ikea are the subjects of this video. So if you're looking up standing desks or specifically the Trotten mechanical standing desk, I'm going to be putting this up in real-time. In there, should we go in? Basically, I'm going to show you how it's put together, plus I'm going to be hacking my Trotten standing desk with these!
I'm going to try and put wheels onto my Trotten desk to see if I can move it around the Happy Hut here. And I'm going to be fitting this bit of electronic genius to the tabletop. I'm going to drill into it. I'm going to actually... Oh my goodness, I'm going to put this cable connection and embed it into my Trotten desktop and see if I can do that without completely destroying the desk. So wish me luck.
Let me show you the desk that I'm replacing first. This is obviously an Ikea classic tabletop. It's the white Linnmon, the absolute cheapest desktop you can get from Ikea. I've rather fetchingly spray-repainted it grey, and I actually like the chips that have fallen off over the years. I think it gives it a bit of character. It's also got an Ikea story to tell because right above my head is this Svensas padded... well, I guess you'd call it an index board or a pinboard. I didn't fit it to the ceiling quite strongly enough, and it fell in the night one night, thankfully when I wasn't there, and made this massive dent in the... Can you imagine the weight of it to cause that kind of damage? But I've kept that as well as yet more character. But it's time to get the Trotten standing desk unpacked and ready. But to do that, I've got to clear this first. So quick-time sequence montage. I'll just speed this up. Yeah, let's just clear with it. I've got a monitor stand. I've got to get that off and clear the top, and we'll just clear the area there.
So now I guess the first thing I need to do is to open up the base. The base box. Base. How low can you go! With the winding mechanism.
So just... oh, ouch, open up that. And we need to put together the middle section, which I think is this bit here. We've obviously got the Ikea bag of nuts. It's the bag of nuts moment that I have in every one of my videos. IKEA gives you, in its infinite... uh, generosity, it gives you an Allen key and an Allen key holder. We're going to do this eight times.
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Next, we get these pads that come in the Allen key bag, and we're going to put these four pads on to here, which I guess will make it soft for where it meets the tabletop.
Then we bolt these really big arms... oh my goodness, that's so heavy. And we are going to bolt them to the beam that we've just built here. Problem number two, like an idiot, I put this on completely the wrong way around. It should be the other way around. I've done this completely wrong. It should be this way around with the lid... with the lid on top like that. This bit is really difficult. The trouble with this part is that they have to go in at the exact angle, and so if you keep them loose and don't tighten up... once... ah, and don't tighten up one side. Now we turn this upside down and put the things on the sides that will hold the table.
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And now the legs. Finally, we can put these on. Here's one leg, and I think they go with these holes facing up. And then the bolts can go into the legs. It’s a bit tricky finding them, the holes, and we are doing this eight times.
Now this is a really big moment. Let's see if this works. I want to put wheels on my desk so I can wheel it around, and I thought, well, maybe I should try putting the wheels on right now because it'll be easier to do it now than when I've got the tabletop on it. So fingers crossed. I'll go to my second camera. So I'll put the details of the fittings in the description. I think this is an M8, and it's this long, so the hope is that it will fit this hole here where Ikea have supplied kind of plastic feet.
I think this might actually work. So what I'll do is I'll put all four casters on, and we won't find out until I turn the desk over. The feet that come with the Trotten standing desk look like this, so if you're not going for the caster approach and going through it out of the box, these don't come with it. I bought those; the link is in the description below.
Oh, look at this. The end of this pole goes into this hole that has this hole here. There isn't one of those holes on that side. So, absolutely, this part of the pole needs to go in here, and then squeeze it in because it just slides in like that. Now I want the handle to be on this side, I think because I'm right-handed, that kind of feels right. So I'm going to twist the Trotten standing desk around so that I can put the handle in there. Now it's time to open this bad boy, the tabletop. Let's open it very carefully.
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So we've got the base flipped over now, and then you just line it up with the holes which are pre-drilled, and then we'll screw the base to the tabletop. And the final part of the puzzle, obviously, is the crucial what makes this Trotten adjustable standing desk - it's the winding handle, the precious winding handle.
Crowd sound effects!
So now I have to... oh no, it's the wrong way round. Oh no, what I’ve done. That's the crucial hole for winding the desk, and it should have been on this side where the hand winder will go. So I've got to unscrew everything now and turn it around.
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Great, so now I have the hole on the right-hand side, which is on the left-hand side, but you know it's the correct side. And then I need to push it in so far that it brings the handle all the way up to the clip here that holds it in place. Over here, on the other side, we'll put a washer on, and then we need to fix something onto the end to stop it being pulled out. And that's what this thing does. So I think all I need to do now is to put this on the end and to screw it. That'll stop the handle being pulled out all the way.
Big, big moment now where we put the desk up, and we'll see what it looks like.
Oh, this feels good.
And this right now is what it looks like. Behold!
I'm not sure it's coming across on screen how magnificent this looks. What I really like about this setup because of the casters is that I can move it around and have it as a standing desk for making my YouTube videos.
But big moment of truth, this is the important thing. Find the - oh no! It’s the wrong way round! The thing with the casters is that I haven’t factored this in - is that it actually makes the desk very tall for its normal position. I probably should have got wheels that are slightly smaller because I think this might be a little high.
But the whole point of this and the whole reason you’re watching this video is the crank handle, right? So let’s get the crank handle out. Just pulls out like this. It’s a really smooth action. The desk goes up - I can't even say it I'm too excited for words. Oh my goodness oh this feels so good! This feels absolutely perfect so all I need to do now is to fit my monitor stand onto it which I'm sure will make it really super heavy but let's take it down again in quick time!
That's the bottom I'll just tuck that in so I'm just going to I'm going to turn my back to you for a moment, forgive me.
Yeah it's... it's too high! I-- it does need to come down and I've got the chair at its highest setting so if you were curious about putting casters onto the Trotten standing desk I think you might want to double check how big you... you want those wheels to be.
I went for the biggest wheels I could, because I wanted it to move smoothly and not trip up but having the wheels to be this large makes the desk just a tiny bit too high.
That was two years ago - I haven't aged a bit, have I!
Let me give you a review now of what this Ikea Trotten desk is like to work with:
I absolutely love it.
I have added this adjustable monitor arm stand there's a link down in the description and I've slung my PC computer underneath and that can go up and down up and down with the standing desktop.
But the biggest hack is this!
It's a USB hub where I can plug in my headphones, memory cards, or USB devices. To get this on here, I had to drill a massive hole into the desk, and I absolutely had to get it right the first time.
Drilling into a brand new desk!
Luckily, I did get it right, and I think this looks really epic. I don't regret drilling into the desk, and I use it every day. The way that I have this set up is that I have my camera mounted on the wall, and this is my position for all my YouTube videos. When I want to raise the desk, everything - all the cables - rise with the desk, which is really useful. It's a shame I had to lose the caster wheels I added, but it is really easy to slide the Trotten desk into any position that I need. And for two years of daily use, I think the surface of the desktop is still pretty smart and pristine. I thought that I would want the electric motor, and I couldn't really afford that at the time, but I really don't think that I need an electric motor for this desk. And that's not me putting a brave face on it. Would you want an electric motor on your standing desk? Leave me a message down below in the comments. I actually like the exercise and the mind break to wind it up and down by hand. It's never been a problem, and it only goes as fast as an electric motor would anyway. Thank you for helping me with a thumbs up or hitting the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is how the USB hub works with any desk.
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PINK FOOTBALL BOOTS
Hello, welcome back to the channel. This seems like a Daft video to make, but I can't find pink football boots for my daughter. Can't find them anywhere in any of the regular sports stores here in the UK. So I've gone nuts on Amazon, and I've bought three random pairs of pink football boots, and I'm gonna unbox them for you right here, right now in real time. And then maybe I'll get my daughter to choose the pink football boots she wants.
Now, I've got to stress at this point, this is her choice. This is nothing to do with me. I need to make this clear because there are people in the world tweeting things like this, where pink football boots are seen as some kind of thing that women should not be wearing because I don't know, it's reinforcing some stereotypes. But here's the thing, my daughter likes pink and she wants some pink football boots. She plays football every Saturday and she's really good. She plays for the town's football team. She's... she's really good. Not that ability should come into this, but she just wants some pink football boots. I don't think that's unreasonable.
But Adidas and Nike and Sports Direct and JD Sports and all the other companies that seem to profit from kids playing sports, they don't want to go anywhere near pink football boots. So their range is... it's... they're really super clear about this, that they keep saying it's unisex. They're all unisex. But it just so happens that the unisex designs are all a bit, how can I put it, appealing to perhaps people born biologically as boys. And obviously to even hint that a girl might want pink football boots, it would just make everyone's head explode.
So I couldn't find them in the shops, which is a shame because that's where you can try on the football boots and see if it's the right size, the right shape. Amazon has come to the rescue for me. I've just gone on a shopping spree. I love the word spree. The word spree is either linked to something really terrible or shopping. I don't think it's an unreasonable request from my football-playing daughter to have pink boots. I mean, look, this is the England International Football squad , the women's football team. I see pink boots. I also see a really big pink shirt there as well. You're not supposed to do that. Who's going to tell Lauren James that she shouldn't be wearing pink boots? Not me. I support your choice. And I'm trying to help out my daughter with her choice.
It was footy pops, it was for a cartoon about puppies, and a female character just happened to be wearing pink boots. But my football-playing daughter likes pink boots. So what's the problem with her right to choose pink boots? Makes no sense.
People just like to argue. Anyway, so I've got... I've got three choices here. Let me open them up quickly. Now I'm going to try and put these down in the description. But obviously, where you're watching this and you're watching this in the future, you might not be able to access these exact boots. So I'll put a generic search, it's the exact same search that I did to throw up these boots. And I'll also... I'll put links to these specific boots just in case they are available.
So we've got three choices. Now, one comes in a box, that's good. One comes in a bag, that's reassuring. I want a pair of these. And then there's finally this anonymous bag. Should we open it? This is where Amazon absolutely trounces JD Sports and Sports Direct. Why don't you do pink football boots? First up in the box. Let's open the box first because they're all mysterious. Oh, these look nice.
So these are the Dream Pairs football boots. I'm hoping this is size five. Now I can't really commentate on these. Football commentary would be good, wouldn't it? Let me just show you the studs. The studs aren't removable, but it claims to have a supportive heel and breathable mesh lining, and high grip TPU cleats. But I mean, they're just... they're just moulded with a durable textured upper and lace-up closure. I like... I like the lace-up. They do feel really cheap, which they are. I think it's just one notch over on the cheapness, even for my keenness to save a dollar or two. But I love how they've come in the box. So I'm gonna put them back carefully because we're going to be sending back two of these. And if you want to see how to send something back to Amazon, I've got you covered. I've got this video here all about how Amazon returns works.
Let's go with football boots pair number two. Now personally, obviously these football boots are not for me, but I like this colour the best. I want trainers like this. These are LEOCI, is that how you pronounce it? LEOCI kids soccer shoes in pink and black. Obviously, we call it football over here. Um, what's interesting is that both the last pair and this pair have these weird kind of nails or the kind of stud things there, and on the heel there. I don't know what that does. I really, really. I know it's not for me. I really like the colour of these, and I love that the studs, the studs are just moulded into the base. Anyway, but I love how they're black. I think they're really stylish, and they feel a bit thicker than the last pair, you know, the material on the side that is a definite contender for the cup.
The third pair, they don't come in a box or a bag, they just come in some bubble wrap, so they've probably been worn before, tried on which is understandable. These are LDTSUP... No SUP. LDTSUP. Kids soccer boots, and there's an even more intricate design with the studs here. So I like the studs, and I like how it's kind of pink and white, that looks good. Not that they’re for me again, I have to keep emphasizing this. It's got ZUQIU Sports, that kind of well-known brand on the side. So I'm not sure what the LDTSup is all about. Pink laces. But to me, I mean, these look like um, Slazenger martial arts shoes with studs on it's that kind of. So it's not they're not breathable. Um, but the flare on the side is textured, which is a nice touch, so there's some careful design here, and I love the stitching on the back. There's like extra padding on the back which might, I think, seal the deal, although all of them have it. But they don't actually have an entire panel on the back here on the heel. It says it's a soft fabric, a delicate foot feel. It's a nice kind of padding inside there.
The other claim of LDTSup is a unique stud design, wear-resistant and non-slip. Whereas these studs are smooth on the bottom, these studs do have a grip on them. So there's like a lattice design or a little, little mini studs on the studs which would help when you're walking on the tarmac, running across the car park late with the kickoff 20 minutes to go. Oh my goodness, can I just say if you've got kids who play football, I feel for you. Yeah, I... I hate it. I am to drag out on a Saturday morning just to watch overweight men yelling at their daughters “down the line! Down the line!” I don't even know what 'down the line' means, but I've heard it a billion times on the few matches that I've been lucky enough to... well, I've gone to nearly all of them. Got the season coming up now, so this is er... pretty urgent.
Which one do you think, before she chooses? Which one do you think she's going to go for? Do you think she's going to go for pink and purple? I'm going to call this one candy pink or the Slazenger sort of the white gym shoe look. So just looking at them, which pair do you like best? Number two? I don't know. I really like the colour. Just works so well, just a really nice colour. Yeah, I saw that. So this one, and it's also a blend of light black and pink, yeah, right, so you're kind of badass, badass with a flash of pink. Oh, second is probably the white and pink one. I like, I like the football logo. There's like a little image of a football, a fire, and football sort of on the side. And then I really like the mix of these colours, they work really well together, and then the silver, and then like the bottom is just really pretty. So the um, is so you're a fan of the... can you pronounce that? ZUQUI Sports. It's a ZUQUI sport, came second, and then number one came last. Yeah, so the purple, purple diamond ones last. I think I... I they do look nice, but I think they're just a bit too much. Yeah, a little bit too busy, like my favourite ones, they're like nice, sort of, and simple. A bit much, and these are all just like different colours and different shapes, and then it's a bit mad. Yeah, a little bit. And for all of them, you've not actually said anything about the studs. Oh yeah, well, like they're all plastic, aren't they? Yeah, this one is also a bit plain because it's just like this bit's really, like you said, busy, and then this bit's all plain, it's just plain pink because I said people saying that girls shouldn't have pink boots, you know. Oh, you're just giving pink boots because they're girls, that's why we can't find any in the shop. Yeah, and when they do, they mostly do unisex, like when we went this weekend football shopping, yeah, as they are all basically unisex, but like they... they weren't any pink. Yeah, a bit like, what do you think unisex actually means, that boys and girls can both wear it? But like if they can both wear it, then why can't the boys wear pink? Sort of annoying. So it is anti-women! It is quite stereotypical because like it's sort of like girls can't play football, boys can't like pink, we've only got like... right, yeah, Nike, Adidas, JD Sports, Sports Direct, oh, I get it. So are these keepers then? Yeah, I like these ones. Yeah, I don't know, they're a bit flashy with the blue and yellow. Yeah, they do clash. They do clash a bit.
They look a bit weird, but yeah, but you know that's why they're distinctive, I guess.
I am calling this a dad delivers.
Fail!
No, it's a success!
How?! Definitely success,
yeah, lots of money. You like one, not just one but two pairs of pink boots, and I didn't think we could find one pair of pink boots.
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Which are the best budget pink football boots for girls on Amazon? I review 3 pairs of pink football books in this unboxing, and also share how and why it's difficult to find pink football boots in Sports stores in the UK. I help my Lioness girl get her pink football boots as my tiny contribution to Women's Football.
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. This seems like a Daft video to make, but I can't find pink football boots for my daughter. Can't find them anywhere in any of the regular sports stores here in the UK. So I've gone nuts on Amazon, and I've bought three random pairs of pink football boots, and I'm gonna unbox them for you right here, right now in real time. And then maybe I'll get my daughter to choose the pink football boots she wants.
Now, I've got to stress at this point, this is her choice. This is nothing to do with me. I need to make this clear because there are people in the world tweeting things like this, where pink football boots are seen as some kind of thing that women should not be wearing because I don't know, it's reinforcing some stereotypes. But here's the thing, my daughter likes pink and she wants some pink football boots. She plays football every Saturday and she's really good. She plays for the town's football team. She's... she's really good. Not that ability should come into this, but she just wants some pink football boots. I don't think that's unreasonable.
But Adidas and Nike and Sports Direct and JD Sports and all the other companies that seem to profit from kids playing sports, they don't want to go anywhere near pink football boots. So their range is... it's... they're really super clear about this, that they keep saying it's unisex. They're all unisex. But it just so happens that the unisex designs are all a bit, how can I put it, appealing to perhaps people born biologically as boys. And obviously to even hint that a girl might want pink football boots, it would just make everyone's head explode.
So I couldn't find them in the shops, which is a shame because that's where you can try on the football boots and see if it's the right size, the right shape. Amazon has come to the rescue for me. I've just gone on a shopping spree. I love the word spree. The word spree is either linked to something really terrible or shopping. I don't think it's an unreasonable request from my football-playing daughter to have pink boots. I mean, look, this is the England International Football squad , the women's football team. I see pink boots. I also see a really big pink shirt there as well. You're not supposed to do that. Who's going to tell Lauren James that she shouldn't be wearing pink boots? Not me. I support your choice. And I'm trying to help out my daughter with her choice.
It was footy pops, it was for a cartoon about puppies, and a female character just happened to be wearing pink boots. But my football-playing daughter likes pink boots. So what's the problem with her right to choose pink boots? Makes no sense.
People just like to argue. Anyway, so I've got... I've got three choices here. Let me open them up quickly. Now I'm going to try and put these down in the description. But obviously, where you're watching this and you're watching this in the future, you might not be able to access these exact boots. So I'll put a generic search, it's the exact same search that I did to throw up these boots. And I'll also... I'll put links to these specific boots just in case they are available.
So we've got three choices. Now, one comes in a box, that's good. One comes in a bag, that's reassuring. I want a pair of these. And then there's finally this anonymous bag. Should we open it? This is where Amazon absolutely trounces JD Sports and Sports Direct. Why don't you do pink football boots? First up in the box. Let's open the box first because they're all mysterious. Oh, these look nice.
So these are the Dream Pairs football boots. I'm hoping this is size five. Now I can't really commentate on these. Football commentary would be good, wouldn't it? Let me just show you the studs. The studs aren't removable, but it claims to have a supportive heel and breathable mesh lining, and high grip TPU cleats. But I mean, they're just... they're just moulded with a durable textured upper and lace-up closure. I like... I like the lace-up. They do feel really cheap, which they are. I think it's just one notch over on the cheapness, even for my keenness to save a dollar or two. But I love how they've come in the box. So I'm gonna put them back carefully because we're going to be sending back two of these. And if you want to see how to send something back to Amazon, I've got you covered. I've got this video here all about how Amazon returns works.
Let's go with football boots pair number two. Now personally, obviously these football boots are not for me, but I like this colour the best. I want trainers like this. These are LEOCI, is that how you pronounce it? LEOCI kids soccer shoes in pink and black. Obviously, we call it football over here. Um, what's interesting is that both the last pair and this pair have these weird kind of nails or the kind of stud things there, and on the heel there. I don't know what that does. I really, really. I know it's not for me. I really like the colour of these, and I love that the studs, the studs are just moulded into the base. Anyway, but I love how they're black. I think they're really stylish, and they feel a bit thicker than the last pair, you know, the material on the side that is a definite contender for the cup.
The third pair, they don't come in a box or a bag, they just come in some bubble wrap, so they've probably been worn before, tried on which is understandable. These are LDTSUP... No SUP. LDTSUP. Kids soccer boots, and there's an even more intricate design with the studs here. So I like the studs, and I like how it's kind of pink and white, that looks good. Not that they’re for me again, I have to keep emphasizing this. It's got ZUQIU Sports, that kind of well-known brand on the side. So I'm not sure what the LDTSup is all about. Pink laces. But to me, I mean, these look like um, Slazenger martial arts shoes with studs on it's that kind of. So it's not they're not breathable. Um, but the flare on the side is textured, which is a nice touch, so there's some careful design here, and I love the stitching on the back. There's like extra padding on the back which might, I think, seal the deal, although all of them have it. But they don't actually have an entire panel on the back here on the heel. It says it's a soft fabric, a delicate foot feel. It's a nice kind of padding inside there.
The other claim of LDTSup is a unique stud design, wear-resistant and non-slip. Whereas these studs are smooth on the bottom, these studs do have a grip on them. So there's like a lattice design or a little, little mini studs on the studs which would help when you're walking on the tarmac, running across the car park late with the kickoff 20 minutes to go. Oh my goodness, can I just say if you've got kids who play football, I feel for you. Yeah, I... I hate it. I am to drag out on a Saturday morning just to watch overweight men yelling at their daughters “down the line! Down the line!” I don't even know what 'down the line' means, but I've heard it a billion times on the few matches that I've been lucky enough to... well, I've gone to nearly all of them. Got the season coming up now, so this is er... pretty urgent.
Which one do you think, before she chooses? Which one do you think she's going to go for? Do you think she's going to go for pink and purple? I'm going to call this one candy pink or the Slazenger sort of the white gym shoe look. So just looking at them, which pair do you like best? Number two? I don't know. I really like the colour. Just works so well, just a really nice colour. Yeah, I saw that. So this one, and it's also a blend of light black and pink, yeah, right, so you're kind of badass, badass with a flash of pink. Oh, second is probably the white and pink one. I like, I like the football logo. There's like a little image of a football, a fire, and football sort of on the side. And then I really like the mix of these colours, they work really well together, and then the silver, and then like the bottom is just really pretty. So the um, is so you're a fan of the... can you pronounce that? ZUQUI Sports. It's a ZUQUI sport, came second, and then number one came last. Yeah, so the purple, purple diamond ones last. I think I... I they do look nice, but I think they're just a bit too much. Yeah, a little bit too busy, like my favourite ones, they're like nice, sort of, and simple. A bit much, and these are all just like different colours and different shapes, and then it's a bit mad. Yeah, a little bit. And for all of them, you've not actually said anything about the studs. Oh yeah, well, like they're all plastic, aren't they? Yeah, this one is also a bit plain because it's just like this bit's really, like you said, busy, and then this bit's all plain, it's just plain pink because I said people saying that girls shouldn't have pink boots, you know. Oh, you're just giving pink boots because they're girls, that's why we can't find any in the shop. Yeah, and when they do, they mostly do unisex, like when we went this weekend football shopping, yeah, as they are all basically unisex, but like they... they weren't any pink. Yeah, a bit like, what do you think unisex actually means, that boys and girls can both wear it? But like if they can both wear it, then why can't the boys wear pink? Sort of annoying. So it is anti-women! It is quite stereotypical because like it's sort of like girls can't play football, boys can't like pink, we've only got like... right, yeah, Nike, Adidas, JD Sports, Sports Direct, oh, I get it. So are these keepers then? Yeah, I like these ones. Yeah, I don't know, they're a bit flashy with the blue and yellow. Yeah, they do clash. They do clash a bit.
They look a bit weird, but yeah, but you know that's why they're distinctive, I guess.
I am calling this a dad delivers.
Fail!
No, it's a success!
How?! Definitely success,
yeah, lots of money. You like one, not just one but two pairs of pink boots, and I didn't think we could find one pair of pink boots.
Looking for some kitchen inspiration, sorry inspo? Are you planning a kitchen renovation?
Here are 6 things we didn't know about kitchen skylights, light wells, or Velux before our new kitchen renovation. Things we wish we knew before the rebuild started here in the UK. We love how the planning worked out, but hope this gives you some open plan kitchen style ideas for your build with a before and after.
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Hello welcome back to the channel
This is the Dad Delivers Vlog where we try new things to make your family happy and... I said "yer" family
how disrespectful! It’s to make our family happy but maybe... maybe these things will help you too
today we're going up into the sky and the reason I've got all the lights off is so that you can see them
these are the skylights
they... they're new, except they're not new - we've had them for a year but we've never cleaned them
so I'm going to clean the skylights today and also go through six things that I didn't know about skylights
I've not had them before so they might help you if you're planning a new kitchen
what do you call them?
is it skylights or light Wells or Velux?
these aren't Velux and I’ll probably touch upon that later on because maybe we should have had some kind of opening thing
but we went for ones which don't open
but before... I don't know if I can find some footage of... this is how the kitchen... this is how this whole area looked before we had the wall knocked down
there's like this Berlin wall in the middle that broke up this space and it just made everything really small, really dank and it was really dark as well
we had the idea that “what if we were to knock holes in the ceiling and have these light Wells” and they have really helped
we've not got any lights on at the moment and they... they just let in so much light
but there were six things we weren't expecting
let me take you up in them
Oh, that’s better - we’ve got the lights on now
Kitchen Skylight fact number one is the insects love them
and it's really obvious now but when we were planning it, I didn't realize it would be quite an attraction
it's like a little uh Alton Towers or Disney World Paris for... for the insect population
this seems really obvious now but obviously when an insect flies in like a fly or wasp, they try to get out and so they head for the light
and the best light - especially on a sunny day - is up here and over time they really collect and gather
so you either have to try to go in there and fish them out or you just leave them there to... well I guess you know pass out from trying to bang their head on... on the poor glass there
If we had Velux Windows you know the ones where you kind of open a latch and you can actually open the thing - you could I guess let them out but it would create its own problems
also I'm not sure we could have had one this big
there are no regrets from having the sealed light well style window but it does... it does tend to attract a lot of insects
which brings us on to Sky light fact number two which is the spiders love the insects trapped by the skylights
I don't know if you can see, they're just these dark bits?
I think these are from where spiders have spawned and they absolutely fill the sky well with webs
if I can stand on the table - there’s a spider here - I don't want to wreck his dinner but there are a lot of webs in here and it it just looks a bit Addams family after a while, so we have to kind of keep them in check
I don't want to do any harm to the spiders - they’re doing a fantastic job in keeping the insects down - but sometimes the webs do take over and that's what I've got to sort out now
I got this device on Amazon: it's an Oxo good grips extendable microfiber duster
I'll leave a link below but it's extendable so you can undo the whole of this and you can press the button to adjust the angle of the feather duster
it's like the ultimate feather duster look at that!
but it also has a removable duster cover - it’s like a popper and then you can take that off and wash it
this is my first time using this as it'll probably show but the idea is that we'll be able to clean the worst of it
just get the spiders webs off hopefully without harming them
wow there's a big one just in the gaps
if I push the camera into the edge you might be able to see a big spider - where is he?
Oh he’s up there isn't he... he's just hiding under there
so they're safe, they're safe
I'm just gonna wreck their one year's work
just so we get some light through!
hey look did you see that!
He hid! he ran in and hid
That's good because I don't want to... I don't want to harm them
I just don't want to look at their webs
Unexpected kitchen Skylight fact number three is that they collect mould
I wasn't expecting this and this seems to come up a lot on the my channel - my videos lately
we have this constant battle against finding mould in ever new places around the house and unfortunately the skylights are no exception because they they just attract mould
I think it's pretty obvious that if we're cooking, the one place the moisture is going to go is straight up to the skylights
we do have an extractor fan in the corner so that helps - we’re putting that on more now - but these sky lights or light Wells do tend to collect mould
let's push the camera up so you can see it
I can't tell if it's uh spawn points for the spiders or little bits of mould growing from the... the moisture that collects up here
what I tend to use for mould and I've put it on the channel on the last couple of videos but I tend to use this - the Milton sterilizing fluid
you might be using that as a parent if you've got little kids to sterilize their dum-dums their dodos and their Bot Bots but now we're buying it to get rid of just huge chunks of mould
now I think you're supposed to dilute this even just a little bit, but I've been using it neat and I've got to say that wherever I've put it on the walls the mould has gone instantly
the black marks disappear within hours and they... they don't come back
so here I am applying it liberally with a microfiber cloth - just trying to get into the corners to get rid of those mould spots
it's just one more bit left
do the splits on the sofa like Leroy... Channel my inner Leroy from Fame
well it's a good workout if nothing else
and over on the other Skylight this is me standing on the very delicate, very precious quartz countertop there
hoping that my delicate frame can be taken by our kitchenware and I'm just... I'm just standing very gingerly trying to balance myself and not uh and not break or crack the top there because that would be very very bad news
kitchen skylight or light well fact number four is that we need to send the kids out there to to clean the glass
it's a bit like in Victorian times when you would send the children up the chimney to clean the chimney
we live in more enlightened times so we send ours up to clean the filthy skylights
they haven't got that dirty but there's a lot of moss and foliage and just crud that falls off the roof and that segues us to fact number five:
that the lights - we weren't expecting - but we put these LED strips in underneath which I think looked really nice
I was hoping they'd be coloured and would flash and give us disco lights
we just got the plain ones but they're good they're really good and they put like this cornice around it to hide the the light strips
The only downside with it is that it really illuminates the back of the house
It's almost like it projects direct light onto our kids windows and it keeps them awake
Well, they claim that it keeps them awake - but it is pretty bright up there if you've got these... these light Wells on, so we're sending light the other way out into space
And then there's facts number six
the final fact which is that the kids... because they're up there they can see when you are hiding drinks and chocolates in the kitchen
they can just look down the light well and see exactly what's going on
So if you are likely to want to hide stuff from your kids when they're not looking they can totally see everything - so you might want to bear that fact in mind
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. This is the Dad Delivers Vlog where I try new things to make your family happy. And the new thing I was trying three years ago was this, the IKEA APPLARO wooden garden table, and it was fantastic. I have a video; there's a link in the description showing you an unboxing on how to assemble the APPLARO wooden table. It's much bigger than I thought it would be. We've got quite a large patio. I'm going to show you what it looks like; it's just behind me. I'm going to show you what it looks like three years on, but in that video, I showed how to put the table together, also with the chairs. It looks really good. It was a really nice brown wood look, but I didn't know how long it would last and what it would look like three years down the line. That's what this video is about. I'm going to step aside and reveal what it looks like. Should we just, let's just do it now?
This is what it looks like now, and it could look better. I thought it might look characterful, but it does just look out and out clapped out. A few things, I'm going to walk you through a few things that are probably an issue that you might be able to avoid. Actually, I'm going to hold the camera alongside the flat edge of the table, and you can see how the slats sink in. In the video putting it together, you can see that there are kind of these pins in the middle, and that is the only support for the table in the middle, and we've got kids, and they might have sat on it from time to time, maybe even stood on it for the odd frisbee or two. That has taken its toll, but outside of those, it does kind of warp unevenly.
The biggest thing to happen to the table is obviously this, and this happened this week, and it's kind of why I wanted to make the video. I'm going to try and put this back together again, but it's going to be very difficult because you can see there's a break here and a break on the other side, and there's nothing for it to bite into. So what I'm going to do is flip the table over and I'm going to try and press out the table, flatten it at least, try and make the surface a bit more level, and then see if we can get this plank, this loose plank back onto the table. I think I'm just going to walk on it. I don't know if this is going to snap or break the table, but hopefully, it will push some of it back into place. Oh, it's clicking. I'm not sure it's a good thing.
Okay, well, I hope that's not made things worse and kind of flattened it just a little bit. Next, I'm going to try and fix the missing plank, the plank that has no edges to it. So what I'm going to do is find this plank and I guess cut it to length and then screw it underneath just to hold the missing plank in place. Hoping that didn't go through. Oh, hoping that didn't go through. No, I didn't. Great.
Okay, so I've pre-drilled some holes here, and I'm hoping that this is the right way around. I'm going to slide it underneath, sort of get it into the right position, but there's nothing for it to bite into. I can't really clamp it. I haven't got any clamps that would fit. If I put it in how I think it should go, it doesn't fit at all. Maybe it'd be easier to do this the right way up, you know, try and get the board in the gap, but at least I have something for it to sit on now. It's like a 3D jigsaw puzzle. If one goes, oh, I wonder if your stepping it out actually made it not fit anymore. I should have stepped it out with the board in the right place. Let's try that. I've got it. That's the exact fit. Yes, got it. Fantastic, look at this. So all the others are higgledy-piggledy, but the one I wanted is now dead straight. What I can do now is maybe it'll be easier to... I don't want to lift the table up. There it goes. But I'm going to climb underneath and put the screws into those five pilot holes and hold the thing in place. It's never easy. The screws are pushing the board out of place. So now each time I'm screwing the screw, it's just pushing the board up instead of gripping it in place. So now I've got to put the drill bit back in and go back and drill those pilot holes, the five pilot holes to go through the plank underneath and into the actual top surface plank of wood as well. And then go back and screw the five screws back into place. Oh, finally.
Let me show you closer. So now, oh, look, it's just shown up how bad all the other planks of wood are. But the one here is absolutely the most solid plank on the table. I'm calling this a Dad Delivers Success. I wish that I could have got some varnish to stain it, but I sort of like the colour that it's gone. I like that it looks weathered. You might not like it; you might think it looks clapped out, but I think it's got character, probably a bit too much character. Anyway, thanks for coming along with me on this little trip to our garden table.
Our Olive Tree needs saving from our dog Casper. So I'm going to rescue it... but is it too late!
I'm not an expert on tree care or Olive Trees, or planting, gardening, potted plants or growing. But I do know how to drive to the supermarket and fill plant pots with soil. There's a twist at the end if you can stick with it. PS an olive tree is an awesome gift for dad idea!
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. My name's Neil. This is the Dad Delivers Vlog, where I try new things to make your family happy. Today, I'm going to... I think I'm going to save a life. This is the life I'm going to save: our poor Olive Tree. There's a bit of a story behind this. So, there's the giant hole. It's from Casper. We just can't get him to stop digging in our garden. And we filled in most of the hole. It did get really deep, deep enough for him to bury himself in it, but we filled it up.
And I've had this olive tree for about 15 years, and over the last... Well, two years ago, it was in a... a case, what's the word for it? A flower pot, the plant pot! And it looked like this because we had two olive trees. This is the other one. And the plant pot got completely destroyed. This one, this one's been damaged. It got damaged during the building work that we had in the kitchen. So, this one is kind of hanging on in there. And look, it's still alive. But with my other Olive Tree, the story is not quite as rosy or Olive Tree because, as you can see, we've clipped it back to try and bring it back from the brink. I'm not sure that was a great idea. But look at... look at the root ball. I mean, is there anything left? I have no idea if this is still even alive.
So, I'm going to try and bring it back from the brink. And to do that, I bought this nice big plant pot that I got from the supermarket. I've already started cutting holes in it. I think, I'm not an expert at all, but I think I need some drainage in here. Hello, I can feel the force in this one. So, I'm going to do that. I've got an apple paring knife or a pear paring knife. I'm going to cut some holes in the bottom so the water can run out and also try and do this while not destroying my fingers. I think that's... that's pretty enough holes. It's just to let the water out. Let's fill it up right now!
Here’s the earth. You can tell how long I've been putting this project off by how faded the bag is. But try not to make too much mess.
Okay, a bit of a problem. I think I'm gonna need to go to the shop and get some more Earth.
So, Casper kindly drove me to Aldi. Thanks, Casper. I'll be back in a minute. Good boy.
Compost, compost. Go for the cheap one, I think, even though it's my precious Olive Tree. I have no idea how much to get. If I take one in, maybe they'll let me find three bags?
We've got the Earth, Casper. I got it.
Let's get the poor olive tree.
Oh my goodness, look what Casper's done.
Oh man, it's got even worse. This was... say in the comments. Do you think... Do you think this is even gonna work? This could be a long series. I hope it's a long series because it means... We might have some growth. Oh man, now I know that this plant pot is probably far too big for the little tree and probably for even the bits of Earth that I've got to fill it. But it's... it's a start. And I want it to have enough space to grow if it does grow. So, I'm going to go into this completely positively.
I know this is going to work because I'm going to put so much Earth in here that the Olive Tree can't do anything but grow, grow! Let's get this into the pot. The bag has basically filled the plant pot already. It's loose enough, so I can just put my hand in and dig a little hole for the root ball. So, I'm just digging it in. I think we obviously need some more Earth to fill it up, so we'll get a second bag going in. Hopefully, it will just stand up under its own strength, what little strength it has. I've now realized that it's not straight. If this does survive, you know, in 14 years time, I think that would be annoying... that it's a bit to one side and probably not standing up straight, which was the whole problem with the other tree. If you're regular on the channel, you know that I've not been so good with the trees in the garden, and I think that's what this project, this video, is all about because we've lost one in the garden.
If you're a regular on the channel, you might have seen this eucalyptus tree.
I made a whole video about how our tree is too close to the fence, and I didn't know what to do. I had to brace the fence because the tree was going to bring down the entire fence line down the side of the garden. So, I braced it, and we managed to get a wooden stud, just a plank of wood, to hold the tree back from the fence. And, oh, you guys were so kind in the comments. You gave me all kinds of tips. I've got them on screen now. You know whether to brace the tree or to lash the trunk somehow to pull it away from the fence and train it away from the fence. And then, you know, I got a comment like this from Dr Dee. Thank you, Dr Dee, because that's basically what we've done.
Look, it was a sad day this week where a friend and neighbour and tree surgeon all in one managed to cut the thing down. I would have filmed it coming down, but I was a bit too busy in the car trying to get some cash to thank him for his work. So, when I came back, I found this in the street, just the eucalyptus tree in bits and flying across the street. I mean, on the upside, it did smell really gorgeous while he was doing that, but the stench of destruction was sweet. And this is what we have left. And very kindly, they've left us with a single branch. I don't know if you call it a branch, a trunk, a trunk line that actually goes up straight and away from the fence. So, we're going to try and keep this tree going and we're going to try and train this one in the way that we should have done with the tree in the first place.
I can't let this happen again. I can't let another tree be destroyed on my watch. And there's something particularly profane about bumping off a tree. I think that's why I'm spending too much time on this. I have no idea if this is going to work.
There's a slight twist at the end of this story that I really wasn't expecting. About a week after I shot that footage, we loaded up the Olive Tree, and maybe we should give her a name. Leave a comment down below if you can think of her name for our new Old Olive Tree. But anyway, we loaded it up into a wheelbarrow and took it on what I thought would be its final journey to the end of the garden outside the happy Hut, alongside its, uh, brother or sister, the other trees that haven't fared so well in our garden, something incredible happened a few days after that.
I've just, I just had a look, and I can't believe what I've seen!
On the side of the branch here. If I can zoom in, there is an unmistakable bud of growth. This is in one week. I'll see if I can go in with the macro lens, and even now, filming now, I've just spotted four others. This is absolutely incredible. I really didn't think I'd be saying this, but I'm calling this a "Dad Delivers Success."
Hug your trees tight tonight and thank you for your thumbs up or hitting the subscribe button. It really helps me to keep our trees alive.
My Garage is in a total state, so today I'm changing that by fixing the wooden garage door. This is another DIY follow along where I repair and paint our garage door with exterior gloss paint from Dulux: Oxford Blue Weathershield if you're asking
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look at that oh hello welcome back to the channel I'm I've got a job today that I've been putting off for an embarrassing amount of time it's it's over here over the evil plant which I'll talk about in a moment but this this monstrosity that isn't weatherproof and it's falling apart as you can see I'm going to turn this door into this I'm going to make it look like this this is future me so I don't know what I'm speaking what this is actually going to look like but I'm hoping that it's beautiful and blue and a joy to open but right now it looks like this and the number of problems with the door apart from the paint which is the big thing I'm going to do I've got some massive holes here which rats love to uh to go in even though they could use the cat flap probably every time that it rains it just it just down here pools and goes under the door which will probably still happen but I think if I put a bit of wood up and a bit of a block somehow any direct rain might bounce off and not you know be slightly less water going into the garage I've also got this thing going on here this is a lead that used to go to a fountain it's dead there's not no electricity in it this is the dad delivers Vlog where I try new things to make your family happy and today the new thing I'm trying to do is to fix our garage door to just make it look less terrible and to have fewer holes I feel like I can do something here I don't know what let's just see how it goes should we start the time lapse this Up the Music and start the time lapse montage and I'll just talk I've got those kind of a shiplap thing it's just to cover up a hole it's not for structure or even any kind of weatherproofing but I want to make sure that it doesn't hit the floor when open the door because it would be quite demoralizing to have to do this all over again before I can even start the painting I'm now drilling some holes into the ship plant ready so that I could just put the screws in and get on with the other piece of shiplap next I'm trying to line up the shiplap with the terrible what's left of the doors so it's kind of a lot of guess work going on but I really do not want this bit of wood to hit the floor when I open the door every time so I'm just feeling underneath I'm just guessing at lining up what was there and then I'd getting these screws in they're barely holding on to the rotten wood that's there but thankfully there is a bar on the other side so I'm hoping that this thing will hold of course it's going to warp over time so I'm going to put lots of paint on it and that's a problem for future me to worry about this should be a regular part of the of the video format I think for Dad delivers and now I'm measuring up for the second piece of shiplap for the left hand side it doesn't have to be too precise I've now got to empty the garage to try and get the four-way extension cable out and also on my amazing wife is mowing the Lawns so that's why the sound is now terrible
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you know how it just starts off as one job and then
found it oh right now what
let me get rid of this
what I'll do is I'll just move it out of camera shots and then it will just disappear
I've now got to remove this bolt somehow so I need my son to help me on the other side [Music] I saved me a job I'll just get through here yeah
[Music] the concrete now this bolt is in the way of the bit of wood that I want to put in place just to cover this gap on the side of the door it's perilously close to my hand
so I'm trying all sorts and I was really getting nearly all the way through I realized with my wonderful intelligent wife she helped me realize that I wouldn't be able to pull the bolt out because there isn't enough room on the other side if I do get through so I stopped back quickly just so I still had the head on the bolt and then I just hacksawed the other side all the way through which was too long to film even so here's me going at it with a hammer to just knock off what's left of the nuts that wouldn't turn yes got it fantastic oh that takes so much work yes the boat's gone oh that's a win that's a win it's never easy
I just take a set Square to the pencil marking mark it up and then run the jigsaw through I could do this quite precisely but honestly this is a rough door I just want to cover things up I don't need it to be pristine let's see if this works come over with me and see if this fits down here
yeah good enough perfect that's great now I can line it up with the door and screw it in and yeah unfortunately it's not completely flush but at least the big holes are covered now and I think I'm hoping once it's covered in blue paint it'll still look okay it really is just covering up the worst of it I really do not want to do this but I just want to get painting I just I think that will be better for the video as well but I'm going to try sawing this off and putting a piece of wood on this is really difficult so I've used the set Square to Mark a line across where I think the wood is clean and good and now I'm using the jigsaw I'm running the jigsaw just about clears the concrete side so it is actually managing to go through the door frame there but it does look really really precarious doesn't it as far as it would go so hopefully if I can finish it off with a uh hand saw now I'm trying the hand saw the Tenon saw and it I can only do so much
I don't know how to get this bit off how to do it do I kick it what if I kick it would that help
I need to get some kind of crowbar like this one [Music]
okay good start I like the look of this
oh
look at that oh oh my goodness Rusty Hammer oh boy that's not good [Music] yes finally did it that was so difficult it's never easy all I need to do now is to measure this joist up against the door frame Mark out the height and I've sewn the piece of wood Moment of Truth time oh yes that's that's perfect it's gonna be okay I've got a good feeling about this one and just check oh yeah now we get to do some painting I'll go do some scraping first and look I know I should be sanding and priming your door but this really is just a cover-up job so I'm using a wallpaper scraper to get the worst chunks off and then a brush to just brush off the gray paint that's on the door is actually primer but it's been on for so long that it's now starting to peel off it probably needed some paint on top of it I absolutely hate painting with gloss paints I don't know why I just feel on edge every time I use it because it goes everywhere and it goes on me and I just can't get it off but I know that I've got to use this particular paint it's exterior gloss paint so I know it's going to do the job and what I'm doing is just edging it into the the little gaps between the Planks on the door I'm trying to put as much on as possible just to cover up the flaky bits of paint I'm hoping I can just overwhelm it with liquid to hold those flakes in place and I'm making good progress on just the big open expanse of the door but I've also got to Edge it into the corners as well so it's really satisfying to get this much of the door done and then more time is spent however just trying not to go over the edges I don't want to get any blue paint on the concrete because I think that will look really rubbish so I do want it to look crisp on the edges but I know that big blobs of paint could be running down from the flakes if I'm not careful
We get a visit tonight - and probably every night - from this hedgehog in our garden. It makes our cocker spaniel dog Casper go crazy, but we didn't realise it was there. So this is the first time we step out into the garden to see a hedgehog rolled up, curled into a ball. Leaving a camera there for it to uncurl and walk away back down the side of the garage.
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. This is a quick little video about this little guy.
Last night, Casper, our cocker spaniel, went absolutely nuts in the garden, barking and barking. He wouldn't stop. He only does that when there's someone on our property. So, I've heard him do it when there's a cat outside or when some drunk guy won't stop knocking on our door because he thinks he lives here. Here's some footage of that; it lasted for a few hours. He must have been off his head to think that this was a good place for him to live. The police came and sorted it all out, and Casper got to stay in our bedroom for a bit, for the first and last time ever.
But this night, Casper was barking and barking, so we went out to see what the problem was, and I almost trod on this!
Oh! Casper, back!
It's a hedgehog, rolled up in a ball. I've only ever heard of this, to actually see it was wonderful. You might be able to see his face and legs in the middle there.
Oh my God, is that a hedgehog?
Yeah.
They're up in the air to make up that ball of sharp quills, and he's staying completely still. Well, almost. If you look really carefully, you can just about make out his breathing.
This is the Dad Delivers Vlog, where we try new things to make your family happy. And the new thing I'm trying tonight is helping a hedgehog in our garden. Now, I know it looks really light out there in the garden, but that's our camera compensating for the dark. This Hedgehog seems completely ready to just stay like this for however long it takes. I have no idea if it's a he or a she, which causes a lot of debate in our house. Most of the family thinks she's a she because of the Miss Tiggywinkle propaganda. Is it Miss or is it Mrs. Tiggywinkle, or Ms. or Mx.? Anyway, we didn't want to distress her or him or they. We all gave it enough room and stepped back, and I set up my camera and put down a bowl of water, like are you supposed to put a bowl of water down, I don't know. Anyway, we left the camera running and we waited.
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And after some time, it uncurled and went over to the water.
[Music]
Do you want to see that again in slow motion?
There it is, going to the water, and straight through the water. “I'm not having any of that!” And it trundles off quite quickly. I think I would have thought hedgehogs move slowly, but it's got quite a gait on it. Off it goes, under the trampoline. My son takes a few photos, and it seems really happy under there, which means I can get this footage of it for you.
I am calling this a Dad delivers success!
When he'd had enough, I'm calling it a ‘he’, he went off down the side of the garage, and I think he might still be down there. [Music]
Anyway, thanks for letting me share this with you. It makes a change from the DIY videos, doesn't it? Thanks as ever for clicking thumbs up or the Subscribe button. It really helps me to keep this thing going. And right here is what YouTube knows you're going to love watching next. Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers? Just click on his face. Thanks bye! This is going to be the proper one right?
I've not tried using an Amazon Locker before... so, here I am trying to pickup my Amazon package, delivered to an Amazon hub locker. All I do is get the bar code or number and scan my phone or type in the code to open the locker, then I can collect my item parcel from Amazon!
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Hello, welcome back to the channel. My name's Neil, and have you ever ordered an item from Amazon and had that package delivered to an Amazon Locker? I've not done this before, so I'm doing this for the first time in real time, so that you can follow along.
This is the Dad delivers Vlog, where we try new things to make your family happy, and the new thing that I'm trying today is to get a package delivered from Amazon to this Amazon Locker. Put my Amazon app on screen here, but obviously you can do this from the Amazon website. I've just put it here because it looks good on screen. I'm gonna buy this. It's a 12-volt power supply for a new project for my son's bedroom where we're going to put lighted switches up on his bed. I don't know how that's going to go, but the first thing I need to do is to order this power supply.
I know I'm living the dream, but I think I've found just the item here, and the first thing we need to do is to click on 'add to basket,' not 'buy it now,' because if we click on 'buy it now,' it will just send it to the last delivery address, and we're going to change the delivery address. So here it says 'added to basket,' that's a good start. So now we can go to basket.
We have got all the items we need, which is just this power supply. Don't want to go crazy, and I'm going to click on 'proceed to check out.' I've blanked out my delivery address. We're going to change that.
At the bottom, it says 'change delivery or pickup address,' so I'm going to click on that link there, and under selected delivery address it has the last address that it delivered to or your default address. We're going to go down here, see nearby pickup locations, and again, sorry for all the blurring, but I'm just focusing on the bits that we need to click on, and there is an Amazon Locker near us. It's actually next door to a hotel, which is really close to us, so this is super convenient.
I'm going to click on 'pick up' here, and it looks like this works. Now, I've tried this a few times. I've had to make this video about five times because every time I get to this section, it says 'delivery location unavailable.'
Sometimes it says that the lockers are full, but this looks like it's really easy to have delivered at the locker, so we're good to go. There's only one delivery option, free one-day delivery. I'm on Prime, but I'll click on 'continue.' So we have the option 'buy now,' tick this box if you want this to be your permanent delivery address, and it says I have three business days to collect the order once it's been delivered to the locker. We are going to go ahead with this. I'll click on 'buy now.' This is exciting, isn't it? This is the future that we all dreamed of. Order placed. Thanks. And it tells me where the locker is. So let's do a time jump, and I guess we'll need to go to the locker.
So it's a couple of days later, and I've got this email from Amazon to say my package is ready to pick up from the locker. They give you three days to pick up your package, and I've had an email every single day. This is the last day that I can pick this up, and I've got three ways that I can enter the code to release the door to open the door to get my Amazon package. You can either use the barcode in the email or you can type in the pickup code, or both of those have suddenly appeared in my Amazon app under “Your orders”.
When I type in the code or scan the barcode, one of these doors will just suddenly open. It's a bit like that scene in The Young Ones where they're trying to get their washing into the launderette.
'Oh, la-dee-dah! Look what I found in my laundry bag: All of Felicity Kendall’s underwear!'
And that's what's going to happen now. So to scan the barcode, there's a reader here that you just hold your mobile device under, or we can type in the pickup code number, like this. I'm going to do this using the barcode. Which door do you think it was going to be?
*Beep* It beeped!
Whoa, there we go.
Oh, that's the one that I had when I got mine.
[Music]
So we have got our package. We can just close the door.
We got the power supply safely, which meant that I could do this Ikea Hack to my son's bed with his light switch there.
The link to that video is down in the description below.
I am calling this a Dad Delivers success!
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